Welcome back to school! As we start a new school year, the students decided on three basic agreements for our classroom:

Be Kind

Be Safe

Be Productive

We have witnessed acts of kindness in our reading selections, “Mrs. Frisby and the Crow” and “Toto.” What did Mrs. Frisby do to help the crow? What did Suku and Toto do for each other? Mae Jemison, the first African American astronaut, worked with people in poor and underdeveloped countries. What are some other examples of kindness in your school or community?

Kindness is like a flower. It spreads and when someone picks it, the flower makes a person happy. In the story Mrs. Frisby and the Crow, Mrs. Frisby helped the crow by gnawing the string off the crow’s leg.
And the crow helped Mrs. Frisby by flying to her house. In the story Toto, the boy saved Toto’s life. And Toto saved the boy’s life from the lion.

I ate blackberries and dried meat for our Native American food sharing on Thursday. My class learned that they were hunters and gatherers in our Social Science text book. We also learned what the Native Americans ate. The Native Americans used natural resources like a weir to catch salmon and when the salmon came in season, the Native Americans gave the first salmon they caught to their leader.